This post has a preamble that grew to be much longer than I intended. If you don’t care about how I came to write this post or any of the context skip to below the fold
A small bit of context here first: This…diatribe was originally written as a post for Facebook. I haven’t posted anything on Facebook in over 18 months, and longer than that since there was anything of substance. So, this was written as my “triumphant” return.
I honestly thought people would be shocked enough to see that I posted something for the first time in so long that it would garner some attention. I quickly realized that attention was probably not something I actually wanted. Now, with this blog, something feels different. So I thought I’d actually share what I wrote. This is also one of the driving factors for me even starting this blog in the first place. I wanted a place to write about stuff like this and as time goes on Facebook seems less and less like the place to do it. So if you are seeing this because I shared my blog (this post) on Facebook then congratulations on finding your way here. That is/was the first time I’ve shared this little “secret” with the wider world. If that is true, unless you are a small subsection of my friends then I am sorry not sorry for what you’re about to read. Honestly you’re probably not going to like it.
The video I mention will be linked somewhere around the middle of the post, my thoughts below were written the day after that video was published and now I’m finally posting them however many months YouTube says it has been later.
As a wise man once said:
Linear time got hands bro
Anyways…enjoy:
I almost didn’t do it.
It was a near thing.
I wanted to stay away.
I wanted to stay out of it, but this video was enough to bring me back. If you don’t read past this or if you know what this video is about already, I’d appreciate if you just dropped a heart or a thumbs up so this post reaches more people. (Since this isn’t on facebook anymore go ahead and read a little more before watching the video)
1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM
If you haven’t yet you need to watch this video regardless of your feelings on the subject of solar power or renewables in general, its full of good information. I know that it is a long video but if you keep reading I will offer a suggestion to shorten it.
If you aren’t familiar with what this video is or what it is about I will give you a primer. This guy Alec makes videos about various technologies. In this particular video he speaks on several topics dear to me. The first of which is that the world is ready to switch to getting ALL of its electricity from means other than burning things. At, functionally a “moments” notice we could just decided to stop burning coal and methane to generate electricity. Why don’t we? Because it is more profitable for oil companies if we just keep needing to buy things that burn, instead of spending a fraction of that same money upfront to “pre-purchase” enough solar generation to power the same things over their lifetime.
Well, that’s the first 2/3 of the video. The last 3rd is…a different, and more important video. If you only have 30min, please, do me a favor skip to the 1h03m mark and click play. Watch from that point forward with an open mind, an open heart, and a modicum of introspection. IF you do that, I want to say thank you. I appreciate you.
If you watch that video and it makes you mad that I would take sides with this guy. If you think “oh no, not Corey too. I can’t believe ‘They’ got him too.” I’d like for you to really think about that for a second. Think about what it might actually mean that one of the kindest, most mild mannered, least openly partisan people you know is mad enough to get onto a platform that he hates to share an opinion counter to what you might assume he has. My grandfather fought and bled his way through Italy to stop a fascist dictator, now 85 years later we are seeing a DISTRESSING amount of similarities. Consider that I should be your canary in the coal mine.
So what now? Please hear my desperate plea for you to really consider our future. Look inside of yourself and consider if that single issue you’ve been using to guide your vote is REALLY that worth absolutely demolishing any chance we have at a free and better future. It’s time to start actually caring about your fellow humans. So please, evaluate whether or not you have tied your identity or ego to a particular politician or party “winning”. There is no winning, for anyone, under this level of oppression.
Still not sure or did you not actually watch the video? Cool, I honestly doubt most people will. No worries, I’ll leave you with this:
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
- The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson and The Committee of Five of the Second Continental Congress - July, 1776
~Corey
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at some point I’ll figure out how to embed or make that link prettier ↩